• @johannesvanderwhales
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    292 months ago

    And for good reason, really. The supply of livers is too small to save everyone who needs them, so they give them to the people most likely to have a successful outcome. Basically every lived given to one person is sentencing another person to death. That’s just reality with supply being what it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      Their boyfriend volunteered as a live donor. They weren’t asking to be put on the general register.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Which was determined to be unlikely to be successful given her condition, so she would have just died in the attempt.

        • @[email protected]
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          02 months ago

          Read the article again. It said early on her chances were actually quite good, something like 80%

    • @Maggoty
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      22 months ago

      That’s not true. Living donors can donate part of their liver.